dailylurker Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Looks like we are heading into a drought. How long will it last and how bad will it get? We can use this thread to complain about this summer's dust bowl. I'll tell you what.. My grass hasn't been this burnt since I knocked over a firework fountain a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 37 minutes ago, dailylurker said: Looks like we are heading into a drought. How long will it last and how bad will it get? We can use this thread to discuss this summer's dust bowl. I'll tell you what. My grass hasn't been this burnt since I knocked over a firework fountain a few years back. Haven't mowed in 3 weeks now, except for the patched-seed areas that I've been watering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Appears to be the third driest June on record at DCA. 1.13" Less than an inch at my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 36 minutes ago, MN Transplant said: Appears to be the third driest June on record at DCA. 1.13" Less than an inch at my house. Wonder if that helps build the SE ridge as we move deeper into summer. Scorcher August and September possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 The only thing growing in my lawn is the weeds, which somehow thrive in droughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/washington-is-on-the-verge-of-drought-again-after-june-rains-disappoint/?hpid=hp_local-news_cwg-1pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.86430b72da02 6th driest 12 month July to June span on record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRWx Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 55 minutes ago, MN Transplant said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/washington-is-on-the-verge-of-drought-again-after-june-rains-disappoint/?hpid=hp_local-news_cwg-1pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.86430b72da02 6th driest 12 month July to June span on record. Great for next winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 1 hour ago, MN Transplant said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/washington-is-on-the-verge-of-drought-again-after-june-rains-disappoint/?hpid=hp_local-news_cwg-1pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.86430b72da02 6th driest 12 month July to June span on record. Ugh.. It's going to get real hot if we don't get rain. Dry ground makes big heat easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRWx Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 2 hours ago, MN Transplant said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/30/washington-is-on-the-verge-of-drought-again-after-june-rains-disappoint/?hpid=hp_local-news_cwg-1pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.86430b72da02 6th driest 12 month July to June span on record. I wonder where that data comes from? June to July climo seems unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Ended up with 2.3" for June here, but much of that fell in one day. Its super dry here. Same story. Weeds, grass going to thatch, and watering the areas I seeded in March, but that is likely futile. Soil here is super well drained and too many big trees around sucking the yard dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 This is why I never complain much about a wet spring. May was great. One of these years maybe we can keep it going and have "normal" rainfall in June and July. Always seems to go this way though in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyS Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 AccuWeather did a good job of forecasting the May rain well in advance, and they are currently forecasting a total of 8.40 inches at DCA during July and August combined, versus a 1981-2010 normal for those two months of 6.64 inches (and an 1871-2016 average of 8.23 inches). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Watching the grass dry up is almost as enjoyable as watching it snow. How I hate to mow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 .66 for June. Everything burned. Road medians, fields, lawns. Tree leaves turning brown. Cracked clay ground. It's bad. I expect this in early August. Not JULY 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 On 6/30/2017 at 8:42 PM, C.A.P.E. said: This is why I never complain much about a wet spring. May was great. One of these years maybe we can keep it going and have "normal" rainfall in June and July. Always seems to go this way though in recent years. I learned a long time ago that you take the rain whenever you can get it here, because the next drought is usually just one month away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 15 hours ago, Stormpc said: .66 for June. Everything burned. Road medians, fields, lawns. Tree leaves turning brown. Cracked clay ground. It's bad. I expect this in early August. Not JULY 1. By early August north VA will be turned into Hell. It will be a searing super HOT wasteland. Trees will be dying by the millions. Lawns will be brown everywhere. We will have long ago forgotten what rain is, what a cold front is. All will be extreme searing heat and all-encompassing dryness. Rain and tropical entities will stay FAR AWAY from north VA. Astronauts will marvel at the deep gray/brown part of eastern North America visible from space and will comment that that is northern Virginia, where a poor rain weenie known as Jebman has not had any measurable rain for months. Creeks will be bone DRY. People will be frantically digging wells deeper and deeper. Meteorologists will marvel at all the millions of amazing ways Nature will find to cause thunderstorms to just dry up anywhere near north VA. It will be as if someone built a wall all around northern Virginia that is invisible and at least 20 miles tall, that lets air and sunlight and searing heat and choking humidity in, but keeps all rain OUT. People will walk on their crunchy lawns and leave foot shaped marks as crunchy dried grass just breaks off. Pedestrians will be routinely murdered or gravely injured by rolling tumbleweeds that are propelled by the strong HOT dry southwest winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 If you click on the Rainfall map on Sterling's site for the past 30 days, and zoom out to show the whole east coast, you see a green hole showing the least rainfall for the whole east coast right over the DC region (except for a few lucky spots). Link below; click on last 30 days. Dryness begets dryness. This is going to be a nasty one -- less than an inch for July? Rainfall Map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted July 2, 2017 Author Share Posted July 2, 2017 The .03 I got yesterday was gone as fast as snow in March sun. Ground is rock hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 17 hours ago, BlizzardNole said: If you click on the Rainfall map on Sterling's site for the past 30 days, and zoom out to show the whole east coast, you see a green hole showing the least rainfall for the whole east coast right over the DC region (except for a few lucky spots). Link below; click on last 30 days. Dryness begets dryness. This is going to be a nasty one -- less than an inch for July? Rainfall Map Not only does dry beget dry, but it also begets SEARING HELLISH HEAT, and we will see absolutely NO MERCY --- NONE AT ALL. I'll get about .000000000000000001 rain for July. Good thing I have a scanning electron microscope for measuring rainfall with. I usually use it for measuring the nanotechnological amounts of snow we get here in the winter, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Tropics will save us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Ah...the good ole days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 If we have a near neutral ENSO in September and the rest of the fall - dont count on tropical systems getting caught up in the frontal structures. WE had a Neutral ENSO state last Sept and thru the fall last year and we were dry as a bone Neutral ENSO means two things for North VA: 1) Very little snow in the winter, and 2)Very little to no rain at all in the Summer and Fall. Take it to the Bank, you'll gain lots of interest, it never fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 On 7/2/2017 at 11:26 AM, BlizzardNole said: less than an inch for July? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 On 7/3/2017 at 4:51 AM, Jebman said: Not only does dry beget dry, but it also begets SEARING HELLISH HEAT, and we will see absolutely NO MERCY --- NONE AT ALL. I'll get about .000000000000000001 rain for July. Good thing I have a scanning electron microscope for measuring rainfall with. I usually use it for measuring the nanotechnological amounts of snow we get here in the winter, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 18 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said: I'm still on track. I'm on a island wasteland surrounded by lush rainforests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRWx Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: Don't fret. You'll catch up on rainfall this winter. Not if Greenland doesn't melt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 8 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: Don't fret. You'll catch up on rainfall this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 4 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said: Don't fret. You'll catch up on rainfall this winter. Stop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 Sounds like we might start using this thread again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyS Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 On 6/30/2017 at 9:52 PM, RodneyS said: AccuWeather did a good job of forecasting the May rain well in advance, and they are currently forecasting a total of 8.40 inches at DCA during July and August combined, versus a 1981-2010 normal for those two months of 6.64 inches (and an 1871-2016 average of 8.23 inches). AccuWeather came up a little short, as July rainfall at DCA has totaled 9.15 inches . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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